Geico

Staff Engineer - Product Security

Geico$110K — $230K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • CI/CD pipeline experience with ADO pipelines & GitHub Actions required.
  • Proficiency in programming languages such as Java, Python, or Golang.
  • Experience with security tools like vulnerability scanners or static code scanning tools.
  • Knowledge of web application security and managing security vulnerabilities.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration capabilities.
  • Familiarity with managed and database technologies like Cosmos, SQL, MySQL, MongoDB.

Responsibilities

  • Manage vendor/open source tooling integrating functionality across platforms like GitHub Enterprise and Azure DevOps.
  • Build applications and automations to achieve team goals and prioritize critical vulnerabilities.
  • Develop and implement security policies and procedures.
  • Collaborate with development teams to ensure secure coding practices.
  • Stay updated on security threats and trends.
  • Mentor junior engineers and provide guidance.
  • Provide technical leadership and ensure high quality, usability, and performance of solutions.

Benefits

  • Mentorship opportunities for professional growth.
  • Exposure to a dynamic, hybrid tech environment.
  • Engagement with cutting-edge security and development tools.
  • Collaboration with cross-functional engineering teams.
  • Access to a large enterprise environment with broad security challenges.
Full Job Description
GEICO is seeking an experienced Staff Engineer to provide enterprise support for application security in our hybrid, multi-cloud environments. The Product Security Tools Staff Engineer proactively leads and supports Product Security activities that guide the design, development and security of code and code repositories for cloud-hosted and open-source applications. Current tools include CI/CD integrations, SAST, DAST, SCA, container scanning, and automated threat modeling.

Position Description:

Our Product Security tooling team is focused on enabling our engineering teams to build and develop code securely, supporting our code and application scanning tools (vendor & open source). We are looking for an experienced Staff Engineer who can help scale out, automate, and support our Tooling applications, specifically our build-time container scanning tooling. The ideal candidate is experienced in understanding and challenging our Security & Engineering organizations on how and where to implement secure code guardrails and security scanning. We are aiming to expand out our coverage of our security scanning tools more broadly within the enterprise, in a more integrated fashion while also navigating quickly-changing and legacy environments across our tech stack.

Position Responsibilities:

As a Staff Engineer, you will
  • Own managing our vendor/open source tooling, integrating functionality across multiple technology platforms such as GitHub Enteprise and Azure DevOps
  • Build out applications and automations to reach our team goals, better integrate across the Tech platforms, and focus on prioritizing the most critical vulns/findings engineering teams should fix
  • Develop and implement security policies and procedures
  • Collaborate with development teams to ensure secure coding practices are followed
  • Stay up to date with the latest security threats and trends
  • Provide guidance and mentorship to junior engineers
  • Provide technical leadership to multiple areas and provide technical and thought leadership to the enterprise
  • Be accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions


Qualifications:
  • CI/CD pipeline experience, specifically ADO pipelines & GitHub Actions are required for this role
  • Proficiency in programming languages such as Java, Python, or Golang
  • Experience with security tools such as vulnerability scanners or static code scanning tools
  • Knowledge of web application security and how to support engineers with managing their security vulnerabilities as a result of the Product Security scanning tools
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills
  • Knowledge of various managed and database technologies like such as Cosmos, SQL, MySQL, MongoDB
  • Understanding and knowledge of application development life cycle methodologies such as waterfall, rapid prototyping, incremental, and DevOps
  • Familiar with navigating implementing and supporting vendor tools deployed in an enterprise environment
  • Understanding and applied use of OWASP Top 10, NIST CSF, PCI-DSS, etc.


Experience:
  • 6+ years of experience in application security, or in a related domain
  • 6+ years experience with programming languages, including understanding and interacting with CI/CD pipelines for application deployments


Education:
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience


Annual Salary
$110,000.00 - $230,000.00
The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate's work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.

At this time, GEICO will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

About Geico

GEICO (Government Employees Insurance Company) is an American auto insurance company with headquarters in Chevy Chase, Maryland. It is the second largest auto insurer in the United States, after State Farm. GEICO is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway that provides coverage for more than 24 million motor vehicles owned by more than 15 million policy holders as of 2017. GEICO writes private passenger automobile insurance in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. The insurance agency sells policies through local agents, called GEICO Field Representatives, and over the phone directly to the consumer, and through their website.
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Size
40,000 employees
Industry
Founded
1936

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